My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Faith with work yields fulfillment

The greatest achievement is sacred-self-victory.

Suddenly, I saw ocean again—then another horizon line—but this time the deep blue sky was on the wrong side of the line…the Holy crap, we’re upside down side.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.